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The Diamond Lens and Other Stories

Author : Fitz-James O'Brien
Publisher : Hesperus Press
ISBN 13 : 1780940920
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Diamond Lens and Other Stories written by Fitz-James O'Brien and published by Hesperus Press. This book was released on 2023-12-01 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An absorbing and haunting collection of early science fiction tales by an Irish-American author Fitz-James O'Brien capitalized on the success of his predecessors Edgar Allan Poe and Mary Shelley in writing disturbing stories with demented protagonists, and this collection of three tales shows his mastery of the macabre. "The Diamond Lens" tells of a lone scientist's discovery of a microcosmic world within a drop of water, and his growing obsession with the beautiful Animula, a fair maiden within this world which he can see but never enter. His uncompromising pursuit of knowledge at any cost foreshadows the mad scientist familiar to readers in a multitude of works. In "What Was It?" an invisible man is discovered by residents of a boarding house. The residents' capture and investigation of the creature blends the fantastic with the scientific as they seek rational explanations for this extraordinary phenomenon. "The Wondersmith" is a macabre tale of an embittered toymaker who seeks revenge upon the society that has persecuted him by creating demonic mannequins and imbuing them with life in order to slaughter the masses— a fantastic melodrama in which the cunning Wondersmith is offset by the unassuming and unlikely hero Solon the hunchback, in love with the villain's daughter.

The Diamond Lens

Author : Fitz James O'Brien
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Diamond Lens written by Fitz James O'Brien and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Diamond Lens

Author : Fitz James O'Brien
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book The Diamond Lens written by Fitz James O'Brien and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-06 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Diamond Lens Fitz James O'Brien

The Diamond Lens Illustrated

Author : Fitz James O'Brien
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (994 download)

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Download or read book The Diamond Lens Illustrated written by Fitz James O'Brien and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-01-24 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The diamond lens " is a novel written by Fitz James O'Brien in 1858. The story is about a man who falls in love with a being he sees through a microscope in a drop of water.

The Autism Lens

Author : Kara Dymond
Publisher : Pembroke Publishers Limited
ISBN 13 : 1551383470
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book The Autism Lens written by Kara Dymond and published by Pembroke Publishers Limited. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Autism Lens helps teachers to connect to students with autism and support them along their own unique trajectory. Bringing to life communication difficulties that impact socialization and learning, this book removes the guesswork by offering practical solutions and classroom-tested strategies. Woven throughout are stories that encourage teachers to see instruction from a student’s point of view. From this perspective, teachers can gain trust and nudge students into the space where learning happens.

Upheaval

Author : Jared Diamond
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316409154
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book Upheaval written by Jared Diamond and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "riveting and illuminating" Bill Gates Summer Reading pick about how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don't (Yuval Noah Harari), by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the landmark bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel. In his international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now, in his third book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crises while adopting selective changes -- a coping mechanism more commonly associated with individuals recovering from personal crises. Diamond compares how six countries have survived recent upheavals -- ranging from the forced opening of Japan by U.S. Commodore Perry's fleet, to the Soviet Union's attack on Finland, to a murderous coup or countercoup in Chile and Indonesia, to the transformations of Germany and Austria after World War Two. Because Diamond has lived and spoken the language in five of these six countries, he can present gut-wrenching histories experienced firsthand. These nations coped, to varying degrees, through mechanisms such as acknowledgment of responsibility, painfully honest self-appraisal, and learning from models of other nations. Looking to the future, Diamond examines whether the United States, Japan, and the whole world are successfully coping with the grave crises they currently face. Can we learn from lessons of the past? Adding a psychological dimension to the in-depth history, geography, biology, and anthropology that mark all of Diamond's books, Upheaval reveals factors influencing how both whole nations and individual people can respond to big challenges. The result is a book epic in scope, but also his most personal yet.

The Diamond Lens

Author : Fitz James O'Brien
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book The Diamond Lens written by Fitz James O'Brien and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Diamond Lane

Author : Karen Karbo
Publisher : Hawthorne Books & Literary Arts
ISBN 13 : 9780989360449
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book The Diamond Lane written by Karen Karbo and published by Hawthorne Books & Literary Arts. This book was released on 2014 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filmmaker Mouse FitzHenry reluctantly returns to Los Angeles with her fiancâe after sixteen years in Africa, as they each pursue secret projects; he is writing a screenplay set in the city, while she is making a documentary about her bethrothal.

The House on Diamond Hill

Author : Tiya Miles
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807834181
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The House on Diamond Hill written by Tiya Miles and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story

The diamond lens: and other stories, collected and ed. by W. Winter

Author : Michael Fitz-James De C. O'Brien
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The diamond lens: and other stories, collected and ed. by W. Winter written by Michael Fitz-James De C. O'Brien and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Sprawl

Author : Jason Diamond
Publisher : Coffee House Press
ISBN 13 : 1566895901
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Sprawl written by Jason Diamond and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades the suburbs have been where art happens despite: despite the conformity, the emptiness, the sameness. Time and again, the story is one of gems formed under pressure and that resentment of the suburbs is the key ingredient for creative transcendence. But what if, contrary to that, the suburb has actually been an incubator for distinctly American art, as positively and as surely as in any other cultural hothouse? Mixing personal experience, cultural reportage, and history while rejecting clichés and pieties and these essays stretch across the country in an effort to show that this uniquely American milieu deserves another look.

The Diamond Lens

Author : Fitz-James O'Brien
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Diamond Lens written by Fitz-James O'Brien and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FROM a very early period of my life the entire bent of my inclinations had been toward microscopic investigations. When I was not more than ten years old, a distant relative of our family, hoping to astonish my inexperience, constructed a simple microscope for me by drilling in a disk of copper a small hole in which a drop of pure water was sustained by capillary attraction. This very primitive apparatus, magnifying some fifty diameters, presented, it is true, only indistinct and imperfect forms, but still sufficiently wonderful to work up my imagination to a preternatural state of excitement.

Stateless Commerce

Author : Barak Richman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674972171
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book Stateless Commerce written by Barak Richman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-19 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Stateless Commerce, Barak Richman uses the colorful case study of the diamond industry to explore how ethnic trading networks operate and why they persist in the twenty-first century. How, for example, does the 47th Street diamond district in midtown Manhattan—surrounded by skyscrapers and sophisticated financial institutions—continue to thrive as an ethnic marketplace that operates like a traditional bazaar? Conventional models of economic and technological progress suggest that such primitive commercial networks would be displaced by new trading paradigms, yet in the heart of New York City the old world persists. Richman’s explanation is deceptively simple. Far from being an anachronism, 47th Street’s ethnic enclave is an adaptive response to the unique pressures of the diamond industry. Ethnic trading networks survive because they better fulfill many functions usually performed by state institutions. While the modern world rests heavily on lawyers, courts, and state coercion, ethnic merchants regularly sell goods and services by relying solely on familiarity, trust, and community enforcement—what economists call “relational exchange.” These commercial networks insulate themselves from the outside world because the outside world cannot provide those assurances. Extending the framework of transactional cost and organizational economics, Stateless Commerce draws on rare insider interviews to explain why personal exchange succeeds, even as most global trade succumbs to the forces of modernization, and what it reveals about the limitations of the modern state in governing the economy.

Lens on the Texas Frontier

Author : Lawrence T. Jones
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1623491231
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (234 download)

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Download or read book Lens on the Texas Frontier written by Lawrence T. Jones and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs of Texas’ frontier past are valuable as both art and artifact. Recording not only the lives and surroundings of days gone by, but also the artistry of those who captured the people and their times on camera, the rare images in Lens on the Texas Frontier offer a documentary record that is usually available to only a few dedicated collectors. In this book, prominent collector Lawrence T. Jones III showcases some of the most interesting and historically important glimpses of Texas history included among the five thousand photographs in the collection that bears his name at the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University. One of the nation’s most comprehensive and valuable Texas-related photography collections, the Lawrence T. Jones III Collection documents all aspects of Texas photography from the years 1846–1945, including rare examples of the various techniques practiced from its earliest days in the state: daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, and paper print photographs in various formats. The selections in the book feature cartes de visite, cabinet cards, oversized photographs, stereographs, and more. The subjects of the photos include Confederate and Union soldiers and officers in the Civil War; Mexicans, including ranking military officials from the Mexican Revolution; and a wide spectrum of Texan citizens, including African American, Native American, Hispanic, and Caucasian women, men, and children.

The Diamond Lens

Author : Fitz James O'brien
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781470100735
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Diamond Lens written by Fitz James O'brien and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-02-18 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FROM a very early period of my life the entire bent of my inclinations had been toward microscopic investigations. When I was not more than ten years old, a distant relative of our family, hoping to astonish my inexperience, constructed a simple microscope for me by drilling in a disk of copper a small hole in which a drop of pure water was sustained by capillary attraction. This very primitive apparatus, magnifying some fifty diameters, presented, it is true, only indistinct and imperfect forms, but still sufficiently wonderful to work up my imagination to a preternatural state of excitement. Seeing me so interested in this rude instrument, my cousin explained to me all that he knew about the principles of the microscope, related to me a few of the wonders which had been accomplished through its agency, and ended by promising to send me one regularly constructed, immediately on his return to the city. I counted the days, the hours, the minutes that intervened between that promise and his departure.

The Diamond Lens and Other Strange Tales

Author : Fitz James O'Brien
Publisher : Borgo Press
ISBN 13 : 9781592249145
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (491 download)

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Download or read book The Diamond Lens and Other Strange Tales written by Fitz James O'Brien and published by Borgo Press. This book was released on 2002-08 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fitz-James O'Brien lived only 33 years -- from 1828 till 1862 -- but in his brief life he left a mark that endures today. O'Brien endures because he was a remarkable writer. Remarkable indeed He had a way of blending of hard fact with almost-fanciful fantasy, juxtaposing technology and mysticism, creating convincing and scientific settings that play against the otherworldly romance. For all the weird fancifulness -- these days O'Brien is read mostly as a successor to Poe -- his work has qualities we now associate with science fiction: O'Brien clearly researched the field of microscopy before he wrote _The Diamond Lens_; it reads in places like hard SF. (Jacketless library hardcover.)

The Crack in the Lens

Author : Darlene A. Cypser
Publisher : Foolscap & Quill LLC
ISBN 13 : 0971855269
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (718 download)

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Download or read book The Crack in the Lens written by Darlene A. Cypser and published by Foolscap & Quill LLC. This book was released on 2011-03-14 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If someone had asked Sherlock Holmes later in the year, there is little doubt that he would have said his life began that spring day in 1871 when he met Violet Rushdale upon the moors and ended in the winter some months distant. His mother would have disputed the former claim, and many, both friend and foe, would come to deny the latter. Yet what happened that year nearly cost him his life and his sanity, and strongly influenced the man he was to become.It is well known that the toughest steel that makes the sharpest swords must be plunged into the fire, then beaten and reshaped. So it is as well with the best and wisest of men.